My recommendations for books
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Hello, I would strongly recommend the following books, clicking the Amazon UK links will take you straight to the relevant Amazon description page, I would recommend you buying at least one of the following books, only for inspiration, if nothing else 
Here you go:
Teach Yourself Cantonese: Complete Audio CD Program (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)
I strongly recommend this book:
- very clear
- a lot of information
- I have recommended this book to some of my friends
Colloquial Cantonese: A Complete Language Course (Colloquial)
- takes you from ground up
- pretty solid
Cantonese: A Comprehensive Grammar (Routledge Grammars)
- very solid grammar book
- fairly-priced dictionary
That’s about it for now. Yep, buy at least one of these books. You will find that it is a good investment. Regarding online bookshops for Cantonese learning materials, I think that Amazon is the most comprehensive.
I welcome suggestions. Thanks. Benson 
September 14th, 2007 at 9:47 pm
The best Cantonese beginners’ book I’ve found so far (and I’ve used quite a few) is called No Sweat Cantonese. It’s easy, helpful and up to date, and the accompanying CD is great. I wouldn’t recommend the English-Cantonese dictionary as it’s idiosyncratic and full of errors. But I don’t know of any other paper dictionary that’s in print. I guess the market has been taken over by the electronic dictionaries.
June 15th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Inspiring, Benson! Keep up the good work. Hope to get more podcast from you too. Will you join the upcoming http://cantonesePod.com shows when you have time?
Paul